A media statement on the meeting: the Minister of Iraq
Date: Thursday, 06/21/2012 16:56
BAGHDAD - The Citizen
Guest HE Zaranakl, Professor Hadi al-Amiri, on the evening of Tuesday, June 19, 2012 meeting of the "organization and the Minister of Iraq," the presence of sixteen and a former minister. He welcomed the Minister Amer Abdul-Jabbar, former minister of transport, on behalf of the organization's initiative of His Excellency the Minister to climb the meeting of the organization that is consistent with its rules of procedure which provides for the right cabinet ministers of the OSCE participating as members of honor, and the convergence and communication between the former prime ministers and ministers of the government contributes to the goal of Organization is essential for the development of expertise and experience and knowledge of former prime ministers at the disposal of the state, and the process Alsaasseh, supporting and strengthening the capacity in the implementation of programs and projects for the service of the homeland and the citizen and the development and prosperity of the country.
The session was opened by His Excellency the Minister welcome speech in which he praised the initiative of forming an organization and the Minister of Iraq and its objectives and mechanisms of action and expressed his delight with this meeting and on the willingness and readiness to provide the facilities available to the organization's work if you find a need for it.
Given the importance occupied by a paragraph discussing the political situation, the Meeting decided to devote the political deliberations of the subject and the postponement of the second theme dedicated to the discussion paper on the electoral system proposed by the Minister of Transport previous to the next meeting.
The meeting began its discussion of the issue of political presentation by His Excellency the Minister of Transport to the latest developments of the political situation. He reviewed Mr. Hadi al-Ameri in his intervention and intensive sequence of events and attitudes of the blocks and the various political forces since the last parliamentary elections, which paved the way for the emergence of the Government of the partnership on the basis of agreement of Arbil, stopping at the backgrounds of the political crisis, causes of the views of the major political blocs, indication of the main issues that are still pending, including some of the points of agreement of Irbil, which can be summarized with four issues: the rules of procedure of the Council of Ministers, distracting the security ministries, the balance and the Supreme Council of the policies, has failed joint committees, which examined these issues in reaching solutions to some of them and others require the enactment does not prejudice the Constitution.
Dealt with the Minister analysis of the visions and solutions out of the crisis, which centered in the recent period on two tracks Affersa alignment in the distribution of parliamentary blocs, one of them calls for the withdrawal of confidence from the Prime Minister through the constitutional and legal mechanisms and the other is the trend towards the withdrawal of confidence does not provide a solution, but lead the country into the unknown and exacerbate tensions in the country and calls for the blocs and political forces to sit together in a meeting or a national forum for discussing and looking all the issues freely and frankly and the responsibility to get out solutions to the agreements on outstanding issues and not inconsistent with the Constitution. He concluded the Minister at the conclusion of his speech that the developments spawned alignment and balance of power within the House of Representatives does not allow resolving the matters in favor of the no-confidence, and to question the prime minister that the check will not necessarily be in favor of supporters of the no-confidence, so the situation practicable and which is in the interest of the country and its security and stability, and contribute to finding solutions satisfactory to all so that does not come out of the crisis victor and vanquished is to speed up the move towards a comprehensive national dialogue through the convening of the meeting, or meeting the national and boot to it calms down steps to help restore trust between the political forces, and to avoid the launch of the crisis on the basis of Alqumie and sectarian division. He said in the course of his speech that this crisis is a test for democracy in Iraq, which will be enhanced when a boiled joint solutions to the crisis, and Asher at the same time that its continued detriment of the country and is now cast a shadow on the work of the state and its institutions, and adversely affect the investment environment, where I took the international companies show reluctance to come to Iraq after it had been excited by the exacerbation of the political crisis.
After open discussion, overlap most honorable ministers present and reflected the interventions varied in opinions and estimates of the dimensions of the crisis and its causes and the responsibility of various parties, and I pointed to the role of foreign interventions and the impact of developments and the political movement witnessed by the region's countries, and the unanimous consensus on the risks Astmraralozma and the need to get out by the dependent reference the Constitution It will strengthen national unity and keeping the interests of Iraq and its components and its place and straighten the path of the political process and rebuild confidence between the political parties. They also agreed on a consensus that the emergence of dialogue and national meeting held in the event requires the desire and political will and goodwill in building bridges of trust and to find solutions and the willingness of all parties to make concessions opposite for the national interest.
Can be summarized the outcome of the discussions and exchange of views thus:
· The alignment of forces present in the House of Representatives and between the political forces marks the crystallization of two communities of the labor and political blocs close together in size and influence what is not allowed to pass a project-confidence Okiem a majority government, and imposes thus the return to the logic of dialogue, or the continuation of the situation the critical current or go to early elections . The solution most appropriate and possible to investigate the behavior of their approach to the resumption of dialogue and a national meeting.
· The continuing crisis and the increasing intensity to perpetuate and deepen the mistrust between the political parties and the disruption or decline in the communication channels between them and the tension between political discourse and the increasing tension in relations between the forces Alssayashalmcharkh in the government. Have been proposed to resort to views are described independent well-respected by all parties to play a role award helps to crystallize the points of convergence among the parties of the crisis and leading to appropriate solutions, and the Minister of Iraq, the holdings of the diversity in the capacity and political experience and professional can play a positive role in communication and convergence of views crystal and the foundations of the solution accepted by all participants on the basis of.
Evaluation of a positive initiative for the meeting and the Minister of Transport and to repeat and to invite other ministers to participate.
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